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by myself248 1628 days ago
It's a false dichotomy. We can BOTH build more green energy, and use some of it to displace fossil fuels from transportation.

If you predicate the future on reducing car dependency, good luck. I mean it's a noble goal, but you're gonna be holding your breath a while. Cars are popular for a lot of reasons.

Likewise trying to build enough solar panels for all the car-miles currently driven ends up being a mountain of solar indeed. So reducing the miles driven would ALSO be nice.

But we have to start on both and push hard on both, because meeting in the middle will happen a lot sooner.
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sofixa 1628 days ago
> Cars are popular for a lot of reasons

Cars can be popular and not be a necessity for the majority of the population, and that will still drastically cut emission, pollution and traffic congestion.

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bellyfullofbac 1628 days ago
> Cars are popular for a lot of reasons.

And so is jetting off somewhere for holidays.. realistically we need to cut down so much to survive, but so far everyone is working on "it's future society's problem".

Only when the threat of death was within weeks did humans actually react with lockdowns, etc...

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mcguire 1628 days ago
It's going to be interesting when we go back to the normal human behavior of dying within 50 miles of where we were born.

I can see a lot of people posting on this forum telling their grandkids, "I actually saw the Eiffel Tower in person, once. Yes, really! There was this thing called 'tourism'."

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ThunderSizzle 1628 days ago
Well, governments quickness to full shutdowns, lockdowns, and travel bans across the world has made international travel much more less likely for myself, which sucks because I would've liked to see the world.

So maybe that's happening more regardless.

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